Button Quail male to female ratio? AND genetics?

[Chickensrock10110]

Anyone know whats the best ratio for every male?
I want the highest number of fertile eggs to be laid.

Also,

I have males and females of all different colors , will it hurt if I just put any males with any females? Will I get a variety of colors?

 

[shelleyd2008]

Buttons do best with a 1:1 ratio. In the wild they pair up for life.

And mixing the colors together won't hurt at all. Even if you put same colored males and females together, you would still get a mix of colors!! Very few button quail breed true to their color.

 

[citalk2much]

Buttons do best in pairs. This is how they live in the wild I also find the fertility rate is higher this way.
As for the colors I would get a copy of Garrie's book if you want to play with the colors. If you don't care what colors you get you can just put them any old way

 

[gabrielle1976]

So does that mean 7 boys and 7 girls in a cage cuase they all have one opiset or , a seperate cage for each pair

 

[citalk2much]

That means one pair in each cage. Buttons can be very very mean they will rip each others scalps right off.

 

[gabrielle1976]

Lucky me

Well if the cage I am building works out , at least I know how to get there cages for cheap .. I should have stayed with cortunix , my buttons are very cute but very spaztic

 

[citalk2much]

The fun of Buttons is the colors and the sounds they make. I love messing with the colors

 

[Chickensrock10110]

Now I`m confused with a different subject...

Chinese painted and button quails? Are the completely two different birds?If so, how are they different? How are they alike?



Also about colors, so if I pair a "normal" colored bird with a white colored bird....Will I get "normals", whites, plus other colors?

Thanx!